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Messier object
A Messier object, listed in the Messier catalog, is one of 110 star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies compiled by Charles Messier in the 18th century while hunting comets.
Messina
Messina (Missina; ancient Zancle) is a port city of about 217,000 in northeastern Sicily on the Strait of Messina, capital of the Metropolitan City, rebuilt after the 1908 earthquake, home to Italy's busiest ferry port and the proposed Strait of Messina Bridge.
Messina Chasmata
Messina Chasmata is the largest canyon system on Titania, the largest moon of Uranus: a ~1,500 km fault valley, IAU-named in 1988 after Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
Messinian
The Messinian is the last age and stage of the Miocene, from 7.251 to 5.333 million years ago, named after Messina, Sicily, and known for the Messinian salinity crisis.
Messinian salinity crisis
Messinian salinity crisis: late Miocene (5.97–5.33 Ma) isolation of the Mediterranean from the Atlantic, up to 2.5 km drawdown, Mediterranean Salt Giant deposition, Lago-Mare phase, and Zanclean megaflood refilling.
Messla Oil Field
Messla Oil Field (حقل مسلة) is a major oil field in Libya's Sirt Basin, discovered in 1971 and operated by AGOCO, a National Oil Corporation subsidiary.
Messon
Messon (Μέσσον) was the pan-Lesbian sanctuary at Mesa in central Lesbos, seat of the Lesbian commonwealth until the 2nd century AD, with a Late Classical Ionic pseudodipteral temple of the Lesbian Triad, Zeus, Hera, and Dionysus.
Messoud Ashina
Messoud Ashina is a Danish neurologist and neuroscientist who studies migraine, leading research at Rigshospitalet and serving as President of the International Headache Society from 2019 to 2021.
Messuy
Messuy, also written Messuwy, was Viceroy of Kush, a high Egyptian official in Nubia, under Pharaoh Merneptah around 1212–1202 BC, and is best known for a disputed proposal that he later ruled as the pharaoh Amenmesse.
Messy (Lola Young song)
"Messy" (Lola Young song), from This Wasn't Meant For You Anyway, went viral via Sofia Richie Grainge's TikTok dance, topped the UK chart for four weeks, won Best Pop Solo Performance at the 2026 Grammys, and an Ivor Novello Most Performed Work award.
Messy (Rosé song)
Rosé song "Messy" (2025), a pop ballad by BLACKPINK's Rosé, released May 8, 2025 by Atlantic as the fifth track on F1 The Album; produced by Lostboy & Burns; distinct from Lola Young's "Messy".
Mestalla Stadium
Mestalla Stadium (Estadio de Mestalla, Camp de Mestalla) is the football stadium for Valencia CF in Spain. Opened in 1923, it is the oldest top-flight stadium in Spain.
Mesteacăn
Mesteacăn, a Romanian place name meaning "birch tree", borne by several villages, notably in Maramureș and in Hunedoara County (Brad and Răchitova), two of which are registered Roman-era gold-mining sites.
Mester de clerecía
Mester de clerecía is the learned narrative poetry of 13th- and 14th-century Castile, written in the cuaderna vía stanza and led by Gonzalo de Berceo.
Mester de juglaría
Mester de juglaría is the body of anonymous epic and lyric poetry created and orally transmitted by itinerant entertainers in medieval Iberia, mainly during the 12th and 13th centuries.
Mesterolone
Mesterolone (Proviron, Pro-Viron) is an orally active synthetic DHT-derivative androgen marketed since 1966, used in male hypogonadism and oligospermia, non-aromatizable, with limited gonadotropin suppression and WADA-prohibited status.
Mestiza (DJs)
Mëstiza is a Spanish electronic music duo formed in 2021 by DJs and producers Pitty Bernad and Belah, known for fusing flamenco with melodic techno, house, and Afro house.
Mestizo
Mestizo: Spanish term for a person of mixed European (especially Spanish) and Indigenous American ancestry; a colonial casta category and, via 20th-century mestizaje ideology, a national identity label in Mexico, Central America, and the Andes.
Mestizo Argentines
Mestizo Argentines are Argentines of mixed European and Indigenous American ancestry. The census has no mestizo category, but genetic studies show substantial Indigenous and African admixture, especially in the northwest.
Mestnichestvo
Mestnichestvo (Местничество) was the Russian system of the 15th to 17th centuries that assigned military, administrative, and court posts by ancestry rather than ability, abolished in 1682.
Mestranol
Mestranol (Ovastol) is a synthetic estrogen, the 3-methyl ether of ethinyl estradiol, that acts as a prodrug demethylated in the liver and was the estrogen in Enovid, the first birth control pill, approved in 1960.
Mestre Ambrósio
Mestre Ambrósio is a six-member Brazilian band formed in Recife, Pernambuco, in 1992, blending northeastern rhythms such as maracatu and forró with pop and rock.
Mestre Didi
Mestre Didi was the popular name of Deoscóredes Maximiliano dos Santos (1917–2013), a Brazilian sculptor and Candomblé priest from Salvador, Bahia, known for sculptures reimagining ritual objects as art.
Mesures
Mesures was a French quarterly literary review, published from 1935 to 1940 and financed by the American poet Henry Church, with Jean Paulhan choosing texts alongside La Nouvelle Revue française.
Mesut İktu
Mesut İktu (1947–2026) was a Turkish baritone opera singer, administrator, and educator, known for the title role in Turkey's first staged Don Giovanni and for leading the Istanbul State Opera and Ballet.
Mesut Özil
Mesut Özil, German attacking midfielder born 1988 in Gelsenkirchen; played for Schalke, Werder Bremen, Real Madrid, Arsenal, Fenerbahçe, Başakşehir; 92 caps, 23 goals, 2014 World Cup winner; retired March 2023.
Mesylate
Mesylate, also called methanesulfonate, is the anion CH₃SO₃⁻ and the name of a sulfonate ester group that converts an alcohol's hydroxyl into one of organic chemistry's best leaving groups.
MET
MET, also known as c-Met or HGFR, is a human proto-oncogene on chromosome 7 that encodes the hepatocyte growth factor receptor; its dysregulation contributes to cancer progression and metastasis.
Met Center
Met Center (Metropolitan Sports Center), Bloomington, Minnesota arena built 1966-1967 for the NHL Minnesota North Stars; 15,000 capacity; hosted 1,108 NHL games, concerts, and indoor soccer; demolished December 13, 1994.
Met Gala
The Met Gala (Costume Institute Benefit, Met Ball) is the Metropolitan Museum of Art's annual first-Monday-in-May fundraiser for its Costume Institute, founded by Eleanor Lambert in 1948, themed to the spring exhibition, co-chaired by Anna Wintour since 1995, and famous for its celebrity red carpet.